Actually, the power industry has developed some very clever and efficient
ways of capturing and reusing the heat from the boilers. Their engineers and
designers understand that the more efficient they can make the process of
generating electricity with fossil fuel fired turbines the better their
profit margins become.
It seems to be popular to believe that the big energy companies are
profligate wasters of resources. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
They all invest large amounts of their profits in trying to find more
efficient ways to produce energy. It is to their benefit to do so.
Cheers!!
Jim
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8 at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> Well this is one good step in the analysis, and I've been thinking of
> ways to change an engine to better utilize this waste energy.
>
> But now how much waste heat is there in a steam turbine powered by a
> coal-fed boiler?
>
>
> > Something like two thirds of the power submitted by the internal
> > combustion engine is wasted heat so it's only about a third efficient.
> > In a message dated 07/07/2011 21:08:32 GMT Daylight Time,
> > bjshov8 at tx.rr.com writes:
> >
> > Now why or how is one of these processes way more efficient than
> > the other
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